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Alastair Orr

Alastair Orr publishes mostly in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science, on topics such as Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agriculture and Rural Development Research and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

World rank
#419,647
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#140
of 810
Works
31
Citations
72
Citations per work
2.3

What does Alastair Orr research?

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 33.3%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 13.9%Plant Science: 11.1%Safety Research: 8.3%other fields: 33.4%33%top field
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33.3%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics13.9%Plant Science11.1%Safety Research8.3%other fields33.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics14% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science11% of their works
  4. 4Safety Research8% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  6. 6Food Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair Orr's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smallholder Farmers, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Innovation, Livelihood Diversification, Climate Change, Sustainability, Adaptation and Livestock Farming.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Smallholder Farmers112 topics
  2. Sustainable Agriculture82 topics
  3. Agricultural Innovation71 topic
  4. Livelihood Diversification71 topic
  5. Climate Change62 topics
  6. Sustainability62 topics
  7. Adaptation41 topic
  8. Livestock Farming41 topic
  9. Conditional Cash Transfers31 topic
  10. School Subsidies31 topic
  11. Agriculture21 topic
  12. Buckwheat21 topic
  13. Cowpea21 topic
  14. Development21 topic
  15. Genetics21 topic
  16. Quinoa21 topic
  17. Rice21 topic
  18. Water Management21 topic
  19. Agricultural Productivity11 topic
  20. Intercropping11 topic

Where does Alastair Orr work?

Alastair Orr's main affiliation in the publication record is International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Alastair Orr have?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 72 citations for Alastair Orr, ranking #419,647 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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